Asian American Adolescents' Behavioral Health Within the Context of Racism, Discrimination, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Asian American youth are underrepresented in research on racism, discrimination, and adolescent health outcomes compared to their peers from other minoritized racial-ethnic groups. This invisibility is, in part, due to the “model minority” stereotype that portraits Asian Americans as high-achieving and well-behaved, erroneously suggesting that they do not require special attention in health disparity research [1]. However, studies that do examine Asian American adolescents suggest that they are more likely than ot her racial-ethnic groups to experience racial-ethnic discrimination perpetrated by peers or at school [2,3].
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - Category: Child Development Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research